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Extraction and restoration of the dinosaur bones of Quseir Formation, Western Desert, Egypt

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Earth and environmental sciences

Abstract

The Western Desert of Egypt has good exposures of Late Cretaceous successions. These successions contain evidence of dinosaur bones bedded in compact mudstone of the Quseir Formation, Campanian age. These fossils are highly affected by the paleoenvironments of the host layer and recent weather factors. The rate of sedimentation and the degree of the current energy are almost the main factors of the mode of preservation of the vertebrate fossils. The dinosaur fossils are very rare in the Cretaceous deposits of Egypt; therefore any evidence of these bones will increase the knowledge of the form and the distribution of dinosaurs of the African continent. The extraction of these fossils from the host layers needs highly expert paleontologists and special tools to avoid damaging these fossils during the extraction. Here, we explain the extraction and restoration methods of the dinosaur fossils from the south of the Western Desert of Egypt. These methods are explained here in successive steps, which the paleontologist could gradually guide for the vertebrate fossil extraction.

DOI

10.21608/nujbas.2023.251841.1019

Keywords

Keywords: Dinosaur, Egypt, Extraction, Restoration

Authors

First Name

Dalia

Last Name

Wahba

MiddleName

Gamal

Affiliation

Geology Department, Faculty of Science, New Valley University, El-Kharga 72511, Egypt.

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First Name

Gebely

Last Name

Abu El-Kheir

MiddleName

Abdelmaksoud

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Geology Department, Faculty of Science, New Valley University, El-Kharga 72511, Egypt.

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gebely2006@sci.nvu.edu.eg

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Kharga

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First Name

Abdel-Aziz

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Tantaawy

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Geology Department, Faculty of Science, New Valley University, El-Kharga 72511, Egypt.

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Abdel-Gawad

MiddleName

Korany

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Geology department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.

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Giza

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2

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1

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48252

Issue Date

2024-06-01

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2023-11-28

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2024-06-01

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32

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36

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2812-4839

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2812-572X

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https://nujbas.journals.ekb.eg/article_367449.html

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2,186

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New Valley University Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

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Extraction and restoration of the dinosaur bones of Quseir Formation, Western Desert, Egypt

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28 Dec 2024